February 5, 1932 (4 pages)

PE IB ae —s "some melting and freezing the pack tion of ea Wp senna pedis aha eS bas 41m ASHE assole, catia VA esis NOP +15 UIEA 0 PE VOLUME Vi NUMBER 13. THE GOLD CENTER THE. 1 EAT PAPER FRIDAY, FEB 5, 1932. STORM NOTES FROM _ MOUNTAIN DISTRICTS So far the snow and rain have done no great damage in? this’ section and they will give sufficient moisture to aid our mines, as we fully realized what: it meant:‘to be without water for that purpose. last year. storms In the first storm of the season last November many of the summer. cottages af-the Lake Tahoe summer resorts were and it is} thought one man perished in the! snow storm near Cisco, but hope is held that he has escaped. About 12 inches Nevada City damaged of snow fell in and community, over, the wek end and the. cold days’! are delaying the melting, making all roads and walks slick and ‘slip-. pery. xt The City-Grass Valley Ski Course is’ covered with an addi-: tional depth of two feet While the storm of .ast week end! prevented enjoyment’ of snow sports at the Ski Course it is thought that . @ most enjoyable time will be spent . there next Sunday. : All roads to blocked with snow and mail and freight were taken . from the . Nevada City stage to a tractor. Electric power went off at about 8:30 Sunday: evening causing the mines to shut down temporarily. There are about seven feet of snow' ‘at Alleghany at present: Nevada of snow. . Alleghany were last week end. The Sierra City district has about ' three feet .of snow while about foot fell in Downieville making it: » about 18 inches deep there. For, the first-time in many years} the mail from «North Bioomfield! was brought to Nevada City in a. two horse sleigh. Supervisor E. ~.! Dudley was a passenger this week. \ Four feet of. new snow fell at} Graniteville bringing the depth to mine feet, with fice feet noel. packed. At the town of. Graniteville the scant winter ] population of 18 people walk in and out of second story. windows, and joke about the gasoline services station pump of S. Phelps, seven feet below their skis. which 15 A fall of three feet of new snow’ was reported at Relief. Hill. There-is-about-six feet of snow at the Junction the Tahoe, Ukiah highway. Joe Lopez mail route to Washington and is . finding it necessary to use horses and a sleigh. Mr, House’ on has the . tw 0. Ed Carey . of Washington is driving the sleleli. as far as. the junction Lopez meets him sleigh. oA the Summit, the 6,000 foot level, in the Sierra Nevada’s there was up . until about! a week ago recorded 343 inches of snow, according to the Southern Pacific gage at that place. Temperatures were frequently 7 low zero and seldom as high as 32°. for th past three months, and prac-. tically all the first 124 pack on the ground there at. the present time. With settling and} where Kd with another] slightly above . snow is in the: is virtually a cak of ice. The railroad company. reports that in some canyons. around Summit the snow 40 and 60 feet deep. Last Tuesday the temperature at Summit at the 7,000 foot level in the Sierras was 14° below zero, while it was 10° below at Truckee. At Emigrant Gap there were 93 inches of ‘snow, which is twice the amount to fall there usually. The snow fall at Summit settled three inches Tuesday and was 50 inches above normal maximum for the season. There are, 84. inches of snow at Truckee while at Colfax, in the lower rangés of mountains, there are 15 inches. METHODIST CHURCH HAS SPLENDID PROGRAM The Methodist church gave.a splendid musical program\ Thursday evening: which was ‘tinder the direcMiss Minnie Brand). Mrs. Katherine ‘Celio, and Marshall Marshall W. Giselman. Judge. Geo. L. Jones called the assemblage to erder with a few well marks the program was rendered. . Those’ taking part were, WwW. Giselman, Mrs. Reman pli Mrs. William Goede, Mrs., AMMur a Foote, Mrs. Jack Wolff, Brand .and Mr. L, .E. { Vests ‘ is between Miss Minnie’ Sweeney. soi in Nevada : City, . prizes sadded to the cash ' dance represented .a_ total i Local . Printing & Sundries ss step over chimneys; , Lila M. tice fees and fines, $5; chosén Te-} Marshall}. “FIREMEN REALIZE $916: . FROM MASQUE BALL i Goyne an 25th jannual. mas-] ball of the? Department Fire Chief Richard R. nounces that the querade Nevada City Fire . returned. to the Hous-; ton Equipment Fund the largest . sum. ever received by these anual affairs. Net proceeds of the 1931 ‘were $916.77. ball This money turned into the equipment fund and used for the purchase of additional equipment as it is needed. A generous response was made by out-of-town firms which do business will be} both in cash and and ciated by the fire department. both local and out of town to $265, which proceeds of the contribu‘tion from the publie of $1400. RECEIPTS nations, firms, amounted Out of town cash donations. Sale of tickets, Cloakroom Kopp’ refreshment stand., ce S. Lee Leiter pillow: raffle. 10.05 Rental fot costumes 12:50 admissions. 350 Total cash receipts =) 175,20 DISBURSEMENTS, . Music Hall and ast DTZ O85 2.0. Seca eose Refreshment stand Stamps and stationary Moving piano Total cash— disbareemunte $258. 4a) Net Oe COUNTY MONEY PAID ee IN DURING: JANUARY The sum of $11,689.01 was paid into the County Treasury during the month of January coming following O. E. Winburn, justice fees ana' fines, $155; W. L. Mobley, justice $52.50; Estate of trust bequest, $500; . First National Bank in Grass Valley . interest on deposit, $68.10; Ame rica, interest on $262.49; KE demption, from the sources? fees and fines, ‘Martha Leary, Bank of deposit, Augustine, tax re=' $324 OW. O, superior fine, . $10; teacher's permanent retirement fund, $66; Ella M. Austin, tuition to Meadowlake Union High School, $326:09;° Carl J. Tobiassen, sale, of merchandise, $9;' Bank of America, . Nevada City, interest: on deposit,’ $141.75; Evelyn M. Kelly, tax redemption, $36.18; Nevada Co. Farm' sale of produce $290.16; Ella M.! Austin, rebate compensation fund to Nevada City. High School, $2.87 Champion, deposit, estate Creighton, Ella M. Austin, . ; Charles W. Woolsey, $3275.03; His! M. Champion, deposit torio Carneccioli, $2554.70; Lila M. Champion, deposit’ estate of Stephen W. Winchester, $402.52; Ella M. Austin, rent gym, School, $8.00; J. O.: Jones, demption, $278.70; bate on insurance — Central district, $12.02; Frank Steel, bus and truck tax $502.47;. Burroughs Adding Machine Co., rebate on service, $7.9 Ella M. Austin, estate Vit-! tax re-! H. B. Dow, re-. school motor apportionment, rebate to Grass oO ley High School, $6.60; C. C. Mitchell,. tax redemption, $114.58; HE. H. Armstrong, deposit jury fee, civil case, $40; T. J. Hutchinson, tax redemption, $36.91; C. A. Ocker, jusSierra Pacific Power Co., 2 per cent’ gross earnings, $389.10; L. E. Stein, tax redemption, $114:83;R.-W. Rodda, maintenance inmates county hospital, $165; R.N.’ McCormack, clerk’s fees and law library fees, $15.50; S. J. Clark, recorder’s fees, $192.65; Frank Steel, taxes collected during January, $1357.70; Gea. R. Carter, sheriff’s fees, $85.86; W. lL. Mobley, justiee fines, $58.50. EDITOR OF NUGGET — “MAKES SLOW RECOVERY We are wad _to ties that Mrs. Elsie P. Willoughby, editor of The Nevada City Nugget is making some iniprovement after a bad spell ., she suffered earlier in the week. , California. ° {TeROEy : . this was. greatly appre-! the people { comprised ‘The cash values of three prize do. Counties. . . = 0 ,. formers mineralized i Nevada /Nye County, Nevada, ‘ing developments year tof 9000 feet. _ district. : ‘about the end of April with the start, { Grass Valley Higu' ' “TERRY L. SEAWELL ANNOUNCES — CANDIDACY FOR STATE SENATOR Editor Nevaila City Nugget, j Nevada _.City, i California, Dear Sir: Please valuable allow me the use of your. the} my sincere ap-. paper to. express to people of the ‘district, preciation for the support and conti-; dence they have extended me as . their representative in, the State . Assembly. _ i Ww hen I first qs elected to serve! of this of Placer and Nevada Since that time the district has been enlarged until now it eonsists of ten from the Sierra the Mother Bernardino County it will be district it was counties County extending line, down I find that me to de-} line. impossible for cash donations 50.0u\ vote the time thit would be requir-}. and Democratic Tickets 62. ae ed to properly represent a district of; mary Election 1 ‘this size and for that reason have 03! declined to again be a candidate for Asembly. Senatorial District is! re-election to the The new l$ne that I comprised of ‘Placer, Nevada and . Sierra Counties. This district. is tue thoroughly, understand . ishape for and one whose. people I still desire old Blue BLUE POINT, LTD. MINE -WORKS CREW OF MEN The. Blur Point gravel mine near Smartsville last spring and spent the spring and most of the summer months getting the property in hydraulicking. An eld ;debris’ retaining dam was put it to -represent in public life. . In the near future my record in the Assembly will be submitted tu detail for have been the people in their approval. I very active. in tix equalization--work for the-past four years and desire to help complete a tax law,that will relieve reai estate of the unfair has been imposed upon it. tshape by, { operations last fall and ‘tinued through the ,ings, according tax burden that . {miles men, teams and serapers. The company started hydraulic have conwinter. They-are hydrausicking the walls, of ithe mine as, well as the floor of the old workto reports. ; About 20 men are payrolisituated .a few from Smartsville on the Yuba on.the This property. is It-is with this thought and the ex. Riger.: of confidence privilege pression been my to enjoy in the] Lode District to the San. past, that T submit ‘my name to the. a candidate for of State Senator on the voters, as Republican ,; to be held August} 20th, 1932. Very Sincerely yours, i J.-L. “JERRY”? SEAWELL, = . + Assemblyman 3rd. District. ; MURCHIE MINE INSTALLS GRACIE GLENCOE MINE LARGE TRANSFORMERS, ahs Last friday tes large weighing and ten tons respectively were taken to the . Murechie Mine east of Nevada City. ‘When about .a mile east of town the, ‘road became soft and. the truck. ‘carrying the seven ton transformer . started having. trouble. The truck’ seven ° . with the ten ton transformer came (up behind it and pushed the first the S places. =7 SPRING TO SEE MANY MINE PROPERTIES OPEN San Francisco, truck over Cal.— Mining inoe here are anxiously awaiting ‘the advent of spring on account of the prospect of unprecedented gold excitement in the regions of Arizona mining: remo ted. California, and that are now . inaccessible on account of the severe . winter and the unusually snowfall. heavy . The eves of the “mining world, . anxious to see a new gold camp and . a new goid the West substantial new . cold strike will provide the spark toignite a good Considerable intere:t. has been drawn to the Ophir Canvon dist ict rush, are focused—upoi . ! where a old fashioned boom. where. promiswere mode last. unusually high altitude Francisco and . Eastern mining men have organized . the Ophir Canyon Mining to take over the comprising at an San Company Adirondac group’ the key. claims of the Operations will be resumed of a 1000 foot crosscut tunnel . which will increase the gold-silver-! . lead ore reserves developed to date; by two short adits. The Adirondae claim was locatea 1865 and patented in 1871 and, ;subsequent prospecting demonstrat. ‘ed the mineralized area to have a' length of about 23 miles. and a width of 12 miles. Production was hindered by lack of transportation facilities and , other obstacles that have been overcome. ‘EIGHT ~ ADMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP IN COUNTY . Fight new citizens took the oath’ of allegiance to the United States in the Nevada County Superior Court. . One. petition was denied when it. was shown that Joseph Cutzatti, had violated the prohibition laws within , the last “five years. Mrs. Cutzatti's ; petition was continued = until next . naturalization day. Those admitted to were, John; Alfred Arthur, Wm. John: Bray, ‘Charles Heather, Rosetta B. Johns,.Charlés Rondoni, Peter Albert Lowen. Judge Ragland Tuttle delivered ‘a short address to the. newly designated éitizens impressing them with the duties and rights of citizenship. . Mrs. Vera Hansen, on behalf of the Native. Daughters of Grass Valley, presented each of them with an! Américan flag and:—a~—Bear—flae of { citizenship . , for many years and was well known . hole”. fout that L. S. » heen . work at the _been ‘from the drift level. IS UNWATERING SHAFT It is With. great pleasure that we! are able. to announce that the. . Gracie Glencoe Mine is being unwatered at this time with a view of restiming operations. oe recent statement Mr. ne Woodrum has announced that the . Gracie Glencoe Mine south of Nevada City is’ being opened under the; RN: McCormack . himself for the direction of Mr. and California ! i pleted the Mines Corporation, This up-to-date Limited. { property jis equipped with mill, -miaehinery and; biildings. “The shaft is down 350 . ee = feet on the noted Orleans vein. It: ; isabout { seven feet wide between walls at this depth and is widening as the sinking progresses. There is great promise in this . property as’ it lies in a highly There are six well veins on the mineralized zone. developed which is property composed of about 100} acres. Mr. R, N. McCormack of the Gracie Mine. Se ete et TWO MINE VICTIMS BURIED AT SAME HOUR, Funeral services for the two mine accident victims, of the Golden Cen-. ter mine in Grass Valley, Herbert! Finch and Lyell Folech,. who were killed in a delayed blast explosion last week, were held Sunday at the hour but from different mortuary p2 Folch lived a day afj ter ‘the se7ident. There was slight hoves held for his. recovery for a time. . He is survived. by his young widow and parents. Mr. -Firch. lived’: in is owner same rlors. Grass Valley and respecte’. while Mr. a comparatively recent that city Coroner Holmes held an inquest Friday evening but the verdict did not clearly establish whether the accident was what is known to Sica Foich was arrival in that it has . the: office . at the Pri-. ithe property for. ,interests of Los ; motors on its averaging 750 ; Manager \rights on 800.acres of placer ers as a ‘“‘hung blast” At. the inquest it w's nS Wincapaw, managel was on his way. to warn the men of the danger of missed holes when the accident happened. Wm. Grigg, the same tine cover, FORD MINING MILLING CO RESUMES ACTIVE WORK Insfallation complement of the property, seriously injured at is expected to reof-a new and full of machinery having practically completed the Ford Mining and ‘Milling Co. of Los Aneeles ‘has resunted underground “Ford: Mine near San Andreas. The south drift on the . ‘east vein on the 100-foot level is being advanced on a_ full-face of ex-. cellent milling ore and a winze has started in the same orebody’ Specimen rock showing free gold is being found in both workings, Supt. H”.A. Derrer company ,at GOLDEN CENTER MINE ‘TS BEING REOPENED The rolden Center . hee art of the Grass Mine. in the district of unwatered and: placed in shape for active work. William in a business S Valey has been Grigg, “hung blast” eontract for sinking depth of 500. feet éleven. injured explosion has a rectly a-winze to the near Station No. L. S. Wineapaw is manager of the Cooley Butler Angeles, who also have other properties in the Grass Valley District. 2 “The Golden Center has-—a good Cs oo eee WINTER WORK GOES ON IN MANY MINES Calif._—-The Hill Gold Mining Company has. comSan Andreas, installation of larger pumps At the Dougminé near operated and ‘las’ Fiat placer _ being ‘Murphys, under lease . bond, underground work is again in progress after a suspension of about three weeks. The equipment has inereased bined capacity of the new the comtwo pumps {from 850 to 1,100 gallons of water} per minute from the bottom of the 250-footcompartment The flow at vertical shaft present ‘being: hadled is gallons pér minute; Jafet Crosseuttinge Lindeberg states. from the 235-foot poinnt in the shaft has been -resumred to tap the trough of the ancient river channel under exploration. W. D. Kendrick of Los and associates Angeles have acquired, under lease and from Snyder of Charles Andreas the mineral bond, San gravel land, Springs four miles east of Vailey and from Richard MeGary of Railroad Flat the Chapman lode and placer gravel mine, embracing 640 acres, near that town. Through John J. MecSorley, mine operator of Mokelumne Hill, preparations are being made for the early tion of development properties. TYBO METALLURGIST FOR BRADLEY IDAHO MINES Hal Lewers, inaugurawork on both metaNurgist of the Treadwell Yukon mill at Tybo, since its inception, has been transferred to the new. property of the Bradley Yellow Pine, in the Thunder Mountain district of Idaho, 90 miles north of Boise, according to the Mining Record of Tonopah. The Yellow Pine is one of the most promising and largest developments of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan*interests that control Treadwell, Youkon, Alaska Juneau and other major operations. Mr. Lewers is especially well qualified for the new’ _. field as he has had 20 years experience in roasting, syanide and flotation processes of extracting valués. from ores, The Yellow Pine plant repreents the largest single development in Idaho for the year 1931.’ The improvements embrace 8000 h. p,. hydro-electric development, the proving up of-a mine capable of delivering 2500 tons daily to a mill of like capacity which will be ‘preceded by ja pilot mill treating 150 tons daily in order to test the metallurgical problems. The mill will produce gold and — silver bullion” trolytic antimony. ~The latter product will appear for the first time in the United States on a commercial scale.—-Mining Review. Point; Lid., took: over! ’ af Centrai and and eletROAD CONSTRUCTION FOR nerior . Cli ferni Stote entalexnenditure of $4950 890 1932 by the divis arnounced. construction work ing the during ion of bigh= g just. been Mach of fhis, work will Ys about the first of April. The detoiled -_amonnt. fer -hid hewhich will e*) for a first is the surfacing of County April fore t18 NT On vada Road, The. Ukiah that on this same highway in Lake and Colusa surfacing of City” And: the $41,900. ahove Woshington q on the. Tahoe Word. camer. 259 work is highway. Counties, 19.1 miles hetween la point: five miles west of Williams i ‘will start soon. Réetentiy 8 numer ef = ae spirited’ citizens of NevadaCounty went to Sacramento and endeavoredto have the Tahoe Utich ve 4 in “es Smartsville section” comnmlete?t *hig They. road informed that would not he spring. were this ramnietad wou. he t*ren “'p allowed this vear. but it as soon as funds could he for it. When th's rood will traverse some of the most heontitil completed «e@enie sections in the state, the Sierthru mtich of by our early "AN “and the ra Nevada mountains, the country traveled pioneers: in. the days of beautiful lakes of Lake County on to those world famed « red wood trees nearer the Coast. The for 1931 also calls for construction of the final section of the between program Seeromento-Reno highway Gold Run and Emigrant Gap. : From the standpoint of unemployment aid, the. report of Co. W. E. Garrison: director of division of reports reveal that ap4,200 are being employed now in extra mointen=nre Ww ork on the oes day-a-week basis. MRS — LELAND ‘SMITH ENTERTAINS AT CARDS © highways, ' proximately men . Mrs: several Leland . Smith friends mort ente~trined deligntfu, ly at her atNevada ‘Street Beautiful Mrs. Will Ray Davis. . Mesdames Ray Northen, ;William Fouyer, Alma Marsh and lost Fridav afternoon tractive home on at two tables of bridge. prizes were won by and Mrs. Those Fouvyer present were, Louis Elkus, “Aubrey Ray Davis, Farmer, Wisker, Miss . . . . . . the hostess. . HAPS Pesca 2 readers ha ‘PAYMENT GRAVEL CLAIM IS FILED IN COURT E. R: Norton, administrator of the estate of the late W. H. Norton, has filed dn action in the. Superior {Court against Cc. R. Adams, and others, to recover the balance of $594.02 alleged due for gravel from the Norton claims on Deer Creek and which was. used for graveling the first unit of the Tahoe Ukiah. highway east of Nevada City and for which Mr. Adams had the contract. It is claimed that 41,480 tons of gravel was used for which $2395.58 was paid on account. and the balance of $594.02 remains due and not paid. : Attorney O.-E. Winburn of Grass Watley represénts, the plaintiff. ele een mining N letters of administration in the estate of the late Thos. Judge Raglan Tie Saturday. This trial has been befére the courts for’ . . x . sometime and concerns the interest of, heirs of the late Thos. Brock in mining property in Grass Valley. The continuation of the trial of the ease ‘was set for Feb. “5bh. contesting the case. F. S. Ernest, interested Red Lédge Mine near > Washi Was a, Nevada City ‘visitor recen’ “Mr? and-Mrs. W. Dean left Thursday for Kensingtoi Mr. Hayes © will return to . City soon ° on* business «~ with’ the Sierra Mining George Scheffer an are home from a visit in Sa Ahhatt 77> eo oR a? is ——/J Miss L. H. Condon was granted — OM. ee -Brock of Grass Valley, a bry nee, As’ Ee Brock by.

PE IB ae —s "some melting and freezing the pack tion of ea Wp senna pedis aha eS bas 41m ASHE assole, catia VA esis NOP +15 UIEA 0 PE VOLUME Vi NUMBER 13. THE GOLD CENTER THE. 1 EAT PAPER FRIDAY, FEB 5, 1932. STORM NOTES FROM _ MOUNTAIN DISTRICTS So far the snow and rain have done no great damage in? this’ section and they will give sufficient moisture to aid our mines, as we fully realized what: it meant:‘to be without water for that purpose. last year. storms In the first storm of the season last November many of the summer. cottages af-the Lake Tahoe summer resorts were and it is} thought one man perished in the! snow storm near Cisco, but hope is held that he has escaped. About 12 inches Nevada City damaged of snow fell in and community, over, the wek end and the. cold days’! are delaying the melting, making all roads and walks slick and ‘slip-. pery. xt The City-Grass Valley Ski Course is’ covered with an addi-: tional depth of two feet While the storm of .ast week end! prevented enjoyment’ of snow sports at the Ski Course it is thought that . @ most enjoyable time will be spent . there next Sunday. : All roads to blocked with snow and mail and freight were taken . from the . Nevada City stage to a tractor. Electric power went off at about 8:30 Sunday: evening causing the mines to shut down temporarily. There are about seven feet of snow' ‘at Alleghany at present: Nevada of snow. . Alleghany were last week end. The Sierra City district has about ' three feet .of snow while about foot fell in Downieville making it: » about 18 inches deep there. For, the first-time in many years} the mail from «North Bioomfield! was brought to Nevada City in a. two horse sleigh. Supervisor E. ~.! Dudley was a passenger this week. \ Four feet of. new snow fell at} Graniteville bringing the depth to mine feet, with fice feet noel. packed. At the town of. Graniteville the scant winter ] population of 18 people walk in and out of second story. windows, and joke about the gasoline services station pump of S. Phelps, seven feet below their skis. which 15 A fall of three feet of new snow’ was reported at Relief. Hill. There-is-about-six feet of snow at the Junction the Tahoe, Ukiah highway. Joe Lopez mail route to Washington and is . finding it necessary to use horses and a sleigh. Mr, House’ on has the . tw 0. Ed Carey . of Washington is driving the sleleli. as far as. the junction Lopez meets him sleigh. oA the Summit, the 6,000 foot level, in the Sierra Nevada’s there was up . until about! a week ago recorded 343 inches of snow, according to the Southern Pacific gage at that place. Temperatures were frequently 7 low zero and seldom as high as 32°. for th past three months, and prac-. tically all the first 124 pack on the ground there at. the present time. With settling and} where Kd with another] slightly above . snow is in the: is virtually a cak of ice. The railroad company. reports that in some canyons. around Summit the snow 40 and 60 feet deep. Last Tuesday the temperature at Summit at the 7,000 foot level in the Sierras was 14° below zero, while it was 10° below at Truckee. At Emigrant Gap there were 93 inches of ‘snow, which is twice the amount to fall there usually. The snow fall at Summit settled three inches Tuesday and was 50 inches above normal maximum for the season. There are, 84. inches of snow at Truckee while at Colfax, in the lower rangés of mountains, there are 15 inches. METHODIST CHURCH HAS SPLENDID PROGRAM The Methodist church gave.a splendid musical program\ Thursday evening: which was ‘tinder the direcMiss Minnie Brand). Mrs. Katherine ‘Celio, and Marshall Marshall W. Giselman. Judge. Geo. L. Jones called the assemblage to erder with a few well marks the program was rendered. . Those’ taking part were, WwW. Giselman, Mrs. Reman pli Mrs. William Goede, Mrs., AMMur a Foote, Mrs. Jack Wolff, Brand .and Mr. L, .E. { Vests ‘ is between Miss Minnie’ Sweeney. soi in Nevada : City, . prizes sadded to the cash ' dance represented .a_ total i Local . Printing & Sundries ss step over chimneys; , Lila M. tice fees and fines, $5; chosén Te-} Marshall}. “FIREMEN REALIZE $916: . FROM MASQUE BALL i Goyne an 25th jannual. mas-] ball of the? Department Fire Chief Richard R. nounces that the querade Nevada City Fire . returned. to the Hous-; ton Equipment Fund the largest . sum. ever received by these anual affairs. Net proceeds of the 1931 ‘were $916.77. ball This money turned into the equipment fund and used for the purchase of additional equipment as it is needed. A generous response was made by out-of-town firms which do business will be} both in cash and and ciated by the fire department. both local and out of town to $265, which proceeds of the contribu‘tion from the publie of $1400. RECEIPTS nations, firms, amounted Out of town cash donations. Sale of tickets, Cloakroom Kopp’ refreshment stand., ce S. Lee Leiter pillow: raffle.. 10.05 Rental fot costumes 12:50 admissions.. 350 Total cash receipts =) 175,20 DISBURSEMENTS, . Music Hall and ast DTZ O85 2.0. Seca eose Refreshment stand Stamps and stationary Moving piano Total cash— disbareemunte $258. 4a) Net Oe COUNTY MONEY PAID ee IN DURING: JANUARY The sum of $11,689.01 was paid into the County Treasury during the month of January coming following O. E. Winburn, justice fees ana' fines, $155; W. L. Mobley, justice $52.50; Estate of trust bequest, $500; . First National Bank in Grass Valley . interest on deposit, $68.10; Ame rica, interest on $262.49; KE demption, from the sources? fees and fines, ‘Martha Leary, Bank of deposit, Augustine, tax re=' $324 OW. O, superior fine, . $10; teacher's permanent retirement fund, $66; Ella M. Austin, tuition to Meadowlake Union High School, $326:09;° Carl J. Tobiassen, sale, of merchandise, $9;' Bank of America, . Nevada City, interest: on deposit,’ $141.75; Evelyn M. Kelly, tax redemption, $36.18; Nevada Co. Farm' sale of produce $290.16; Ella M.! Austin, rebate compensation fund to Nevada City. High School, $2.87 Champion, deposit, estate Creighton, Ella M. Austin, . ; Charles W. Woolsey, $3275.03; His! M. Champion, deposit torio Carneccioli, $2554.70; Lila M. Champion, deposit’ estate of Stephen W. Winchester, $402.52; Ella M. Austin, rent gym, School, $8.00; J. O.: Jones, demption, $278.70; bate on insurance — Central district, $12.02; Frank Steel, bus and truck tax $502.47;. Burroughs Adding Machine Co., rebate on service, $7.9 Ella M. Austin, estate Vit-! tax re-! H. B. Dow, re-. school motor apportionment, rebate to Grass oO ley High School, $6.60; C. C. Mitchell,. tax redemption, $114.58; HE. H. Armstrong, deposit jury fee, civil case, $40; T. J. Hutchinson, tax redemption, $36.91; C. A. Ocker, jusSierra Pacific Power Co., 2 per cent’ gross earnings, $389.10; L. E. Stein, tax redemption, $114:83;R.-W. Rodda, maintenance inmates county hospital, $165; R.N.’ McCormack, clerk’s fees and law library fees, $15.50; S. J. Clark, recorder’s fees, $192.65; Frank Steel, taxes collected during January, $1357.70; Gea. R. Carter, sheriff’s fees, $85.86; W. lL. Mobley, justiee fines, $58.50. EDITOR OF NUGGET — “MAKES SLOW RECOVERY We are wad _to ties that Mrs. Elsie P. Willoughby, editor of The Nevada City Nugget is making some iniprovement after a bad spell ., she suffered earlier in the week. , California. ° {TeROEy : . this was. greatly appre-! the people { comprised ‘The cash values of three prize do. Counties. . . = 0 ,. formers mineralized i Nevada /Nye County, Nevada, ‘ing developments year tof 9000 feet. _ district. : ‘about the end of April with the start, { Grass Valley Higu' ' “TERRY L. SEAWELL ANNOUNCES — CANDIDACY FOR STATE SENATOR Editor Nevaila City Nugget, j Nevada _.City, i California, Dear Sir: Please valuable allow me the use of your. the} my sincere ap-. paper to. express to people of the ‘district, preciation for the support and conti-; dence they have extended me as . their representative in, the State . Assembly. _ i Ww hen I first qs elected to serve! of this of Placer and Nevada Since that time the district has been enlarged until now it eonsists of ten from the Sierra the Mother Bernardino County it will be district it was counties County extending line, down I find that me to de-} line. impossible for cash donations 50.0u\ vote the time thit would be requir-}. and Democratic Tickets 62. ae ed to properly represent a district of; mary Election 1 ‘this size and for that reason have 03! declined to again be a candidate for Asembly. Senatorial District is! re-election to the The new l$ne that I comprised of ‘Placer, Nevada and . Sierra Counties. This district. is tue thoroughly, understand . ishape for and one whose. people I still desire old Blue BLUE POINT, LTD. MINE -WORKS CREW OF MEN The. Blur Point gravel mine near Smartsville last spring and spent the spring and most of the summer months getting the property in hydraulicking. An eld ;debris’ retaining dam was put it to -represent in public life. . In the near future my record in the Assembly will be submitted tu detail for have been the people in their approval. I very active. in tix equalization--work for the-past four years and desire to help complete a tax law,that will relieve reai estate of the unfair has been imposed upon it. tshape by, { operations last fall and ‘tinued through the ,ings, according tax burden that . {miles men, teams and serapers. The company started hydraulic have conwinter. They-are hydrausicking the walls, of ithe mine as, well as the floor of the old workto reports. ; About 20 men are payrolisituated .a few from Smartsville on the Yuba on.the This property. is It-is with this thought and the ex. Riger.: of confidence privilege pression been my to enjoy in the] Lode District to the San. past, that T submit ‘my name to the. a candidate for of State Senator on the voters, as Republican ,; to be held August} 20th, 1932. Very Sincerely yours, i J.-L. “JERRY”? SEAWELL, = . + Assemblyman 3rd. District. ; MURCHIE MINE INSTALLS GRACIE GLENCOE MINE LARGE TRANSFORMERS, ahs Last friday tes large weighing and ten tons respectively were taken to the . Murechie Mine east of Nevada City. ‘When about .a mile east of town the, ‘road became soft and. the truck. ‘carrying the seven ton transformer . started having. trouble. The truck’ seven ° . with the ten ton transformer came (up behind it and pushed the first the S places. =7 SPRING TO SEE MANY MINE PROPERTIES OPEN San Francisco, truck over Cal.— Mining inoe here are anxiously awaiting ‘the advent of spring on account of the prospect of unprecedented gold excitement in the regions of Arizona mining: remo ted. California, and that are now . inaccessible on account of the severe . winter and the unusually snowfall. heavy . The eves of the “mining world, . anxious to see a new gold camp and . a new goid the West substantial new . cold strike will provide the spark toignite a good Considerable intere:t. has been drawn to the Ophir Canvon dist ict rush, are focused—upoi . ! where a old fashioned boom. where. promiswere mode last. unusually high altitude Francisco and .

Eastern mining men have organized . the Ophir Canyon Mining to take over the comprising at an San Company Adirondac group’ the key. claims of the Operations will be resumed of a 1000 foot crosscut tunnel . which will increase the gold-silver-! . lead ore reserves developed to date; by two short adits. The Adirondae claim was locatea 1865 and patented in 1871 and, ;subsequent prospecting demonstrat. ‘ed the mineralized area to have a' length of about 23 miles. and a width of 12 miles. Production was hindered by lack of transportation facilities and , other obstacles that have been overcome. ‘EIGHT ~ ADMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP IN COUNTY . Fight new citizens took the oath’ of allegiance to the United States in the Nevada County Superior Court. . One. petition was denied when it. was shown that Joseph Cutzatti, had violated the prohibition laws within , the last “five years. Mrs. Cutzatti's ; petition was continued = until next . naturalization day. Those admitted to were, John; Alfred Arthur, Wm. John: Bray, ‘Charles Heather, Rosetta B. Johns,.Charlés Rondoni, Peter Albert Lowen. Judge Ragland Tuttle delivered ‘a short address to the. newly designated éitizens impressing them with the duties and rights of citizenship. . Mrs. Vera Hansen, on behalf of the Native. Daughters of Grass Valley, presented each of them with an! Américan flag and:—a~—Bear—flae of { citizenship . , for many years and was well known . hole”. fout that L. S. » heen . work at the _been ‘from the drift level. IS UNWATERING SHAFT It is With. great pleasure that we! are able. to announce that the. . Gracie Glencoe Mine is being unwatered at this time with a view of restiming operations. oe recent statement Mr. ne Woodrum has announced that the . Gracie Glencoe Mine south of Nevada City is’ being opened under the; RN: McCormack . himself for the direction of Mr. and California ! i pleted the Mines Corporation, This up-to-date Limited. { property jis equipped with mill, -miaehinery and; biildings. “The shaft is down 350 . ee = feet on the noted Orleans vein. It: ; isabout { seven feet wide between walls at this depth and is widening as the sinking progresses. There is great promise in this . property as’ it lies in a highly There are six well veins on the mineralized zone. developed which is property composed of about 100} acres. Mr. R, N. McCormack of the Gracie Mine. Se ete et TWO MINE VICTIMS BURIED AT SAME HOUR, Funeral services for the two mine accident victims, of the Golden Cen-. ter mine in Grass Valley, Herbert! Finch and Lyell Folech,. who were killed in a delayed blast explosion last week, were held Sunday at the hour but from different mortuary p2 Folch lived a day afj ter ‘the se7ident. There was slight hoves held for his. recovery for a time. . He is survived. by his young widow and parents. Mr. -Firch. lived’: in is owner same rlors. Grass Valley and respecte’. while Mr. a comparatively recent that city Coroner Holmes held an inquest Friday evening but the verdict did not clearly establish whether the accident was what is known to Sica Foich was arrival in that it has . the: office . at the Pri-. ithe property for. ,interests of Los ; motors on its averaging 750 ; Manager \rights on 800.acres of placer ers as a ‘“‘hung blast” At. the inquest it w's nS Wincapaw, managel was on his way. to warn the men of the danger of missed holes when the accident happened. Wm. Grigg, the same tine cover, FORD MINING MILLING CO RESUMES ACTIVE WORK Insfallation complement of the property, seriously injured at is expected to reof-a new and full of machinery having practically completed the Ford Mining and ‘Milling Co. of Los Aneeles ‘has resunted underground “Ford: Mine near San Andreas. The south drift on the . ‘east vein on the 100-foot level is being advanced on a_ full-face of ex-. cellent milling ore and a winze has started in the same orebody’ Specimen rock showing free gold is being found in both workings, Supt. H”.A. Derrer company ,at GOLDEN CENTER MINE ‘TS BEING REOPENED The rolden Center . hee art of the Grass Mine. in the district of unwatered and: placed in shape for active work. William in a business S Valey has been Grigg, “hung blast” eontract for sinking depth of 500. feet éleven. injured explosion has a rectly a-winze to the near Station No. L. S. Wineapaw is manager of the Cooley Butler Angeles, who also have other properties in the Grass Valley District. 2 “The Golden Center has-—a good Cs oo eee WINTER WORK GOES ON IN MANY MINES Calif._—-The Hill Gold Mining Company has. comSan Andreas, installation of larger pumps At the Dougminé near operated and ‘las’ Fiat placer _ being ‘Murphys, under lease . bond, underground work is again in progress after a suspension of about three weeks. The equipment has inereased bined capacity of the new the comtwo pumps {from 850 to 1,100 gallons of water} per minute from the bottom of the 250-footcompartment The flow at vertical shaft present ‘being: hadled is gallons pér minute; Jafet Crosseuttinge Lindeberg states. from the 235-foot poinnt in the shaft has been -resumred to tap the trough of the ancient river channel under exploration. W. D. Kendrick of Los and associates Angeles have acquired, under lease and from Snyder of Charles Andreas the mineral bond, San gravel land, Springs four miles east of Vailey and from Richard MeGary of Railroad Flat the Chapman lode and placer gravel mine, embracing 640 acres, near that town. Through John J. MecSorley, mine operator of Mokelumne Hill, preparations are being made for the early tion of development properties. TYBO METALLURGIST FOR BRADLEY IDAHO MINES Hal Lewers, inaugurawork on both metaNurgist of the Treadwell Yukon mill at Tybo, since its inception, has been transferred to the new. property of the Bradley Yellow Pine, in the Thunder Mountain district of Idaho, 90 miles north of Boise, according to the Mining Record of Tonopah. The Yellow Pine is one of the most promising and largest developments of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan*interests that control Treadwell, Youkon, Alaska Juneau and other major operations. Mr. Lewers is especially well qualified for the new’ _. field as he has had 20 years experience in roasting, syanide and flotation processes of extracting valués. from ores, The Yellow Pine plant repreents the largest single development in Idaho for the year 1931.’ The improvements embrace 8000 h. p,. hydro-electric development, the proving up of-a mine capable of delivering 2500 tons daily to a mill of like capacity which will be ‘preceded by ja pilot mill treating 150 tons daily in order to test the metallurgical problems. The mill will produce gold and — silver bullion” trolytic antimony. ~The latter product will appear for the first time in the United States on a commercial scale.—-Mining Review. Point; Lid., took: over! ’ af Centrai and and eletROAD CONSTRUCTION FOR nerior . Cli ferni Stote entalexnenditure of $4950 890 1932 by the divis arnounced. construction work ing the during ion of bigh= g just. been Mach of fhis, work will Ys about the first of April. The detoiled -_amonnt. fer -hid hewhich will e*) for a first is the surfacing of County April fore t18 NT On vada Road, The. Ukiah that on this same highway in Lake and Colusa surfacing of City” And: the $41,900. ahove Woshington q on the. Tahoe Word. camer. 259 work is highway. Counties, 19.1 miles hetween la point: five miles west of Williams i ‘will start soon. Réetentiy 8 numer ef = ae spirited’ citizens of NevadaCounty went to Sacramento and endeavoredto have the Tahoe Utich ve 4 in “es Smartsville section” comnmlete?t *hig They. road informed that would not he spring. were this ramnietad wou. he t*ren “'p allowed this vear. but it as soon as funds could he for it. When th's rood will traverse some of the most heontitil completed «e@enie sections in the state, the Sierthru mtich of by our early "AN “and the ra Nevada mountains, the country traveled pioneers: in. the days of beautiful lakes of Lake County on to those world famed « red wood trees nearer the Coast. The for 1931 also calls for construction of the final section of the between program Seeromento-Reno highway Gold Run and Emigrant Gap. : From the standpoint of unemployment aid, the. report of Co. W. E. Garrison: director of division of reports reveal that ap4,200 are being employed now in extra mointen=nre Ww ork on the oes day-a-week basis. MRS — LELAND ‘SMITH ENTERTAINS AT CARDS © highways, ' proximately men . Mrs: several Leland . Smith friends mort ente~trined deligntfu, ly at her atNevada ‘Street Beautiful Mrs. Will Ray Davis. . Mesdames Ray Northen, ;William Fouyer, Alma Marsh and lost Fridav afternoon tractive home on at two tables of bridge. prizes were won by and Mrs. Those Fouvyer present were, Louis Elkus, “Aubrey Ray Davis, Farmer, Wisker, Miss . . . . . . the hostess. . HAPS Pesca 2 readers ha ‘PAYMENT GRAVEL CLAIM IS FILED IN COURT E. R: Norton, administrator of the estate of the late W. H. Norton, has filed dn action in the. Superior {Court against Cc. R. Adams, and others, to recover the balance of $594.02 alleged due for gravel from the Norton claims on Deer Creek and which was. used for graveling the first unit of the Tahoe Ukiah. highway east of Nevada City and for which Mr. Adams had the contract. It is claimed that 41,480 tons of gravel was used for which $2395.58 was paid on account. and the balance of $594.02 remains due and not paid. : Attorney O.-E. Winburn of Grass Watley represénts, the plaintiff. ele een mining N letters of administration in the estate of the late Thos. Judge Raglan Tie Saturday. This trial has been befére the courts for’ . . x . sometime and concerns the interest of, heirs of the late Thos. Brock in mining property in Grass Valley. The continuation of the trial of the ease ‘was set for Feb. “5bh. contesting the case. F. S. Ernest, interested Red Lédge Mine near > Washi Was a, Nevada City ‘visitor recen’ “Mr? and-Mrs. W. Dean left Thursday for Kensingtoi Mr. Hayes © will return to . City soon ° on* business «~ with’ the Sierra Mining George Scheffer an are home from a visit in Sa Ahhatt 77> eo oR a? is ——/J Miss L. H. Condon was granted — OM. ee -Brock of Grass Valley, a bry nee, As’ Ee Brock by..